Randomized Trial of a Broad Preventive Intervention for Mexican American Adolescents

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Summary

This randomized trial of a family-focused preventive intervention for Mexican American (MA) adolescents evaluated intervention effects on adolescent substance use, internalizing and externalizing symptoms, and school discipline and grade records in 8th grade, one year after completion of the intervention. The study also examined hypothesized mediators and moderators of intervention effects.

Citation
Gonzales, N., Dumka, L., Millsap, R., Gottschall, A., McClain, D., Wong, J., . . . Kim, S. (2012). Randomized trial of a broad preventive intervention for Mexican American adolescents. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 80(1), 1-16. doi:10.1037/a0026063